Aviendha
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Aviendha of the Nine Valleys sept
of the Taardad Aiel
is one of the main characters of the Wheel of Time
fantasy series by Robert Jordan
.
Maiden of the Spear, a warrior woman who marries her weapon; she is of the Nine Valleys sept of the Taardad clan (though an early authorial error has her listed as being of the Bitter Water sept). She was one of the Aiel who ventured out of the Aiel Waste
, across the Spine of the World and into the so-called "wetlands" in search of the Car'a'carn, the Aiel chief of chiefs, He Who Comes With The Dawn. This is the first time Aviendha, Egwene
, Elayne
and Nynaeve
meet. These Aiel aid Egwene
, Elayne
and Nynaeve
on their travels and eventually end up at the Stone of Tear
where Rand
took Callandor, the crystal sword sa'angreal. There Aviendha befriended the three women further, especially Egwene
and Elayne
, who she began to call her near-sisters according to Aiel
custom.
s, Aviendha was summoned back to Rhuidean in the Aiel Waste
for unknown reasons. Making the best of it, she promised Elayne to keep an eye on Rand and departed, arriving in the company of Rand, Egwene, Moiraine Sedai and Lan Mandragoran
. There the truth came out; Aviendha had been summoned because she had the ability to channel, and would be trained to join the ranks of the Wise Ones. She is about as strong in the Power as Elayne and Egwene, making her one of the strongest female channelers alive.
, though Aviendha decided to forgo anything physical again until she could have a talk with Elayne.
to kill Rahvin soon thereafter, which burned back Rahvin's thread in the pattern far enough to undo his recent actions, including her death (as well as the other people Rahvin had killed at the same approximate time). After Rahvin
's demise, Rand foisted Aviendha off on Mat Cauthon
--not to break their mutual attraction (though at the time he too was having trouble getting used to the idea of loving three women) but rather because any woman near him would be in danger, and he couldn't stand to see her hurt. After they arrived at Salidar, Aviendha agreed to accompany Elayne and Nynaeve to Ebou Dar; she assisted in the use of the Bowl of the Winds once it was found. Now safely in Caemlyn, she has finally had a chance to meet Min Farshaw
, the third woman Min saw would fall in love with Rand Al'Thor; Thus far they seem to be getting along. She and Elayne have also formally become first-sisters, an Aiel ceremony that invokes a Power-wrought connection not unlike a Warder
bond. Also, Aviendha, along with both Elayne and Min, have Bonded Rand as their 'Warder' in a private ceremony. She remained in Caemlyn, safeguarding Elayne and, according to Min, Rand's newly-conceived twins. In Knife of Dreams
, Aviendha is taken away from Caemlyn by the Wise Ones to resume her apprenticeship. Before Aviendha's departure from Caemlyn both she and Elayne learn that Aviendha's has the talent of ‘reading’ what a ter'angreal can do. Then Aviendha travels to Arad Doman with the rest of the Taardad Aiel. There she stays away from Rand as the Wise Ones are punishing her as part of her Wise One training. She will not approach him until she has regained her honor. The Wise Ones then explain to her that she is at the end of her apprenticeship but must go through the pillars in Rhuidean again. She leaves Arad Doman via gateway to the Waste alone.
In Towers of Midnight
, Aviendha reaches Rhuidean, where she inadvertently changes the nature of the glass pillar ter'angreal, so that instead of showing the past and origin of the Aiel, they reveal to her the future and destruction of her race. Horrified by the realization that it is her descendants by Rand who cause this, she starts back to the Wetlands to confront him.
, Min had a vision which strongly suggests that Aviendha will have four children with Rand at some point in the future.
Nicola, a novice with the gift of foretelling, foretold, "The lion sword, the dedicated spear, she who sees beyond. Three on the boat, and he who is dead yet lives. The great battle done, but the world not done with battle. The land divided by the return, and the guardians balance the servants. The future teeters on the edge of a blade." Bair and Melaine had a dream of Rand in a boat with three women they could not see and a scale tilting. These two prophecies seem to say that Aviendha is needed to keep Rand alive after the Last Battle. Aviendha is the "dedicated spear". The exact meaning of the prophecy is unknown, though it is speculated that it means she will help Rand defeat the Dark One, along with his other lovers Elayne and Min, and possibly survive Tarmon Gai'don.
Sept (social)
A sept is an English word for a division of a family, especially a division of a clan. The word might have its origin from Latin saeptum "enclosure, fold", or it can be an alteration of sect.The term is found in both Ireland and Scotland...
of the Taardad Aiel
Aiel
In Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time, the Aiel are a race of people. They live between the "wetlanders" in the west and the Sharans in the east, in a desert which the Aiel call The Three-fold Land and which everyone else calls the Aiel Waste. They have earned a reputation as skilled...
is one of the main characters of the Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Time is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under the pen name Robert Jordan. Originally planned as a six-book series, the length was increased by increments; at the time of Rigney's death, he expected it to be 12, but it will actually...
fantasy series by Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. , under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly.-Biography:Jordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina...
.
Description
She is tall and lovely with blue-green eyes. Her reddish hair was originally short with a tail in the back, and is now just short of her shoulders. She is about 5'9".Maiden of the Spear
Aviendha enters the story as an AielAiel
In Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time, the Aiel are a race of people. They live between the "wetlanders" in the west and the Sharans in the east, in a desert which the Aiel call The Three-fold Land and which everyone else calls the Aiel Waste. They have earned a reputation as skilled...
Maiden of the Spear, a warrior woman who marries her weapon; she is of the Nine Valleys sept of the Taardad clan (though an early authorial error has her listed as being of the Bitter Water sept). She was one of the Aiel who ventured out of the Aiel Waste
Aiel Waste
In the fictional world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, the Aiel Waste is an almost waterless desert that had no inhabited cities until Rand al'Thor opened Rhuidean to all. The Aiel also call the Waste the Three-Fold Land....
, across the Spine of the World and into the so-called "wetlands" in search of the Car'a'carn, the Aiel chief of chiefs, He Who Comes With The Dawn. This is the first time Aviendha, Egwene
Egwene al'Vere
Egwene al'Vere is one of the main characters of the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan.-Description:She is described as beautiful, with large brown eyes and long dark hair. Like all adult women in her home village of Emond's Field, she initially wore her hair in a long braid, but as soon...
, Elayne
Elayne Trakand
Elayne Trakand is one of the main characters of the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. She bears a resemblance both in name and appearance to Ilyena, the doomed wife of Lews Therin Telamon from the Age of Legends.-Description:...
and Nynaeve
Nynaeve al'Meara
Nynaeve al'Meara is one of the main characters of The Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan.-Personality:Nynaeve's personality often runs a gamut of emotions, meek at times before more experienced women but also able to stand up and run down others. While she will deny it, Nynaeve is...
meet. These Aiel aid Egwene
Egwene al'Vere
Egwene al'Vere is one of the main characters of the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan.-Description:She is described as beautiful, with large brown eyes and long dark hair. Like all adult women in her home village of Emond's Field, she initially wore her hair in a long braid, but as soon...
, Elayne
Elayne Trakand
Elayne Trakand is one of the main characters of the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. She bears a resemblance both in name and appearance to Ilyena, the doomed wife of Lews Therin Telamon from the Age of Legends.-Description:...
and Nynaeve
Nynaeve al'Meara
Nynaeve al'Meara is one of the main characters of The Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan.-Personality:Nynaeve's personality often runs a gamut of emotions, meek at times before more experienced women but also able to stand up and run down others. While she will deny it, Nynaeve is...
on their travels and eventually end up at the Stone of Tear
Tear (Wheel of Time)
In the fictional world of Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time, Tear is one of the richest nations in the land. This comes in part from controlling the greatest port on the Sea of Storms, at the mouth of the River Erinin. A great deal of Tear's wealth comes from the oil produced on the...
where Rand
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor, also known as the Dragon Reborn, is the fictional main character and protagonist of The Wheel of Time, a series of fantasy novels by Robert Jordan.Rand al'Thor has many other titles within the series:...
took Callandor, the crystal sword sa'angreal. There Aviendha befriended the three women further, especially Egwene
Egwene al'Vere
Egwene al'Vere is one of the main characters of the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan.-Description:She is described as beautiful, with large brown eyes and long dark hair. Like all adult women in her home village of Emond's Field, she initially wore her hair in a long braid, but as soon...
and Elayne
Elayne Trakand
Elayne Trakand is one of the main characters of the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. She bears a resemblance both in name and appearance to Ilyena, the doomed wife of Lews Therin Telamon from the Age of Legends.-Description:...
, who she began to call her near-sisters according to Aiel
Aiel
In Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time, the Aiel are a race of people. They live between the "wetlanders" in the west and the Sharans in the east, in a desert which the Aiel call The Three-fold Land and which everyone else calls the Aiel Waste. They have earned a reputation as skilled...
custom.
To Rhuidean
While she would have gladly accompanied Elayne and Nynaeve to Tanchico to hunt DarkfriendDarkfriend
In the fictional world of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy series, Darkfriends are followers of the Dark One. Darkfriend in the Old Tongue is Atha'an Shadar, which translated more directly to "People of the Dark"....
s, Aviendha was summoned back to Rhuidean in the Aiel Waste
Aiel Waste
In the fictional world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, the Aiel Waste is an almost waterless desert that had no inhabited cities until Rand al'Thor opened Rhuidean to all. The Aiel also call the Waste the Three-Fold Land....
for unknown reasons. Making the best of it, she promised Elayne to keep an eye on Rand and departed, arriving in the company of Rand, Egwene, Moiraine Sedai and Lan Mandragoran
Lan Mandragoran
Al'Lan Mandragoran is one of the main characters of the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan.Lan is very similar in characterization to Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien...
. There the truth came out; Aviendha had been summoned because she had the ability to channel, and would be trained to join the ranks of the Wise Ones. She is about as strong in the Power as Elayne and Egwene, making her one of the strongest female channelers alive.
With Rand al'Thor
At Rhuidean, Aviendha saw that she was fated to fall in love with Rand, which put her at odds with the promise that she had made to Elayne. Aviendha blamed Rand for her predicament, and became suddenly hostile to him (which, of course, he was completely baffled by). The situation was only made worse when the Aiel Wise Ones made Aviendha teach Rand about the Aiel people. The situation continued this way until one day Rand happened to come into the room they shared (as per the Wise One's orders) while she was naked and bathing. Panicking, she made a gateway (incidentally a feat she is not able to reproduce until much later in the series) to the opposite side of the world and fled though it into a blizzard. Rand, realizing that she would not survive long without clothes in a freezing, foreign land, grabbed blankets and pursued her. After fishing her out of a river that she fell into, Aviendha and Rand ended up having sex. Rand kept her close (albeit awkwardly at times) through the battles with the Shaido and the attack on RahvinRahvin
Rahvin is one of the primary antagonists of The Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. He is one of the Forsaken.-Origin:...
, though Aviendha decided to forgo anything physical again until she could have a talk with Elayne.
Recent events
During the battle with Rahvin, Aviendha was killed; Rand used balefireBalefire
Balefire, in the world of the Wheel of Time, is a weapon created with the One Power or with the True Power.-Description:It has only one known weave, and when evoked, summons a blindingly bright beam of "liquid light" that is capable of destroying nearly every known substance...
to kill Rahvin soon thereafter, which burned back Rahvin's thread in the pattern far enough to undo his recent actions, including her death (as well as the other people Rahvin had killed at the same approximate time). After Rahvin
Rahvin
Rahvin is one of the primary antagonists of The Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. He is one of the Forsaken.-Origin:...
's demise, Rand foisted Aviendha off on Mat Cauthon
Mat Cauthon
Matrim "Mat" Cauthon is a fictional character in Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time. He is one of the primary protagonists and has moved over the course of the series from his beginnings as a mischievous farm lad into the role of a powerful, shrewd and successful general and...
--not to break their mutual attraction (though at the time he too was having trouble getting used to the idea of loving three women) but rather because any woman near him would be in danger, and he couldn't stand to see her hurt. After they arrived at Salidar, Aviendha agreed to accompany Elayne and Nynaeve to Ebou Dar; she assisted in the use of the Bowl of the Winds once it was found. Now safely in Caemlyn, she has finally had a chance to meet Min Farshaw
Min Farshaw
Elmindreda "Min" Farshaw is one of the main characters of The Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan.- Description :She is slender, a little taller than Moiraine , and has short dark hair that becomes curly when grown long. She has large, dark eyes...
, the third woman Min saw would fall in love with Rand Al'Thor; Thus far they seem to be getting along. She and Elayne have also formally become first-sisters, an Aiel ceremony that invokes a Power-wrought connection not unlike a Warder
Warder (Wheel of Time)
A Warder in the world of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is a person bonded by an Aes Sedai through the use of saidar to become her bodyguard as she travels....
bond. Also, Aviendha, along with both Elayne and Min, have Bonded Rand as their 'Warder' in a private ceremony. She remained in Caemlyn, safeguarding Elayne and, according to Min, Rand's newly-conceived twins. In Knife of Dreams
Knife of Dreams
Knife of Dreams is the 11th novel in the fantasy series The Wheel of Time by American author Robert Jordan. It was published by Tor Books in the U.S. and Orbit in the UK and released on October 11, 2005...
, Aviendha is taken away from Caemlyn by the Wise Ones to resume her apprenticeship. Before Aviendha's departure from Caemlyn both she and Elayne learn that Aviendha's has the talent of ‘reading’ what a ter'angreal can do. Then Aviendha travels to Arad Doman with the rest of the Taardad Aiel. There she stays away from Rand as the Wise Ones are punishing her as part of her Wise One training. She will not approach him until she has regained her honor. The Wise Ones then explain to her that she is at the end of her apprenticeship but must go through the pillars in Rhuidean again. She leaves Arad Doman via gateway to the Waste alone.
In Towers of Midnight
Towers of Midnight
Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson is the sequel to the novel The Gathering Storm, and the 13th book in the Wheel of Time series.The novel is the second part of A Memory of Light, Robert Jordan's projected final book...
, Aviendha reaches Rhuidean, where she inadvertently changes the nature of the glass pillar ter'angreal, so that instead of showing the past and origin of the Aiel, they reveal to her the future and destruction of her race. Horrified by the realization that it is her descendants by Rand who cause this, she starts back to the Wetlands to confront him.
The future
In Winter's HeartWinter's Heart
Winter's Heart is the ninth book of the Wheel of Time fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan. It was published by Tor Books and released on November 7, 2000...
, Min had a vision which strongly suggests that Aviendha will have four children with Rand at some point in the future.
Nicola, a novice with the gift of foretelling, foretold, "The lion sword, the dedicated spear, she who sees beyond. Three on the boat, and he who is dead yet lives. The great battle done, but the world not done with battle. The land divided by the return, and the guardians balance the servants. The future teeters on the edge of a blade." Bair and Melaine had a dream of Rand in a boat with three women they could not see and a scale tilting. These two prophecies seem to say that Aviendha is needed to keep Rand alive after the Last Battle. Aviendha is the "dedicated spear". The exact meaning of the prophecy is unknown, though it is speculated that it means she will help Rand defeat the Dark One, along with his other lovers Elayne and Min, and possibly survive Tarmon Gai'don.
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